As AI churns through conjectures, researcher warns academic math may already be effectively dead
secemp9 · x · 2026-09-09
Doomslide argues that a false conjecture has exponentially more refutations than a true one has proofs — and AI is now generating them at scale. By the time the public hears about it, they claim, academic math may already be effectively dead, with the mass exodus of researchers already underway. A bleak take on AI's disruption of pure mathematics, echoing recent model breakthroughs on hard math problems.
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